Calendar of Events

A reception will take place on Friday, October 4, from 5:00-9:00 PM as part of First Friday activities

Bryan Wilkerson is a Tennessee native and Professor of Art and Design at Roane State Community College. His creative practices are focused primarily on ceramics and public art but extend into design and drawing. His work explores humor, craft, irony, and play through common symbolic references. He is also the creator and director of the ArtMobile traveling gallery and pop up workshop space.

In this exhibition, Wilkerson will display clever, kooky, and quirky pottery and wall art. For more information, follow him on Instagram at @bryanwilkerson or visit http://bryanwilkerson.com.

On display at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street, in downtown Knoxville. Exhibition hours are Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM. Information: (865) 523-7543 or www.knoxalliance.com.

A reception will take place on Friday, October 4, from 5:00-9:00 PM as part of First Friday activities

Founded in 2001 by Barbara West, members hail from throughout the United States and even other countries. Their membership includes artists with a variety of backgrounds, professions and levels of artistic skill. By using a wide variety of media and showcasing differing art styles, they constantly explore and develop their skills. They have exhibited at the Farragut Town Hall, Peace Lutheran Church, Ball Camp Baptist Church, and Candoro Marble.

The Barbara West Portrait Group has developed a strong communal bond – artistic as well as emotional – as a wonderful by-product of their weekly meetings, which occur every Wednesday and Saturday from 2:00-4:00 PM in Knoxville-area churches. The open studio is $5 to attend with a live model; no instruction is provided. For more information, please contact Debbie Barnes at 865-661-1213 or visit https://www.facebook.com/TheBarbaraWestPortraitGroup.

On display at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street, in downtown Knoxville. Exhibition hours are Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM. Information: (865) 523-7543 or www.knoxalliance.com.

October 4th, 2019 | 7-10pm
and the month of October by appointment

Work by newish member Eleanor Aldrich and Barbara Weissberger who form the long-distance material collaboration ALDRICH+WEISSBERGER

ABOUT THE SHOW:
Our collaborative installations combine original objects, sculptures, paintings, and photographs that come together from our separate studios to form a new work. As we work in separate regions of the country, the meeting and melding of our work is phenomenological – a third thing resulting from shared formal sensibilities and overlapping philosophical concerns. The work comes together through Skype chats, emails, individual material investigations, and the final in-person negotiation of the works in relation to each other and in space.
We are curious about perception and reality. Together our work forms structures within which the actual (real) thing, abstraction, pictorial space and physical space freely circulate and mingle. We make (or alter) all the objects in the installations, and even the flattest parts (photograph and canvas) are called out as physical objects.

Mops, drains, buckets, rags, dustpans, brooms, vacuum cleaners and other tools of cleaning and maintenance will form the central imagery of CUSTODIA. Cleaning tools are liminal - dirty in that they are always touching things that are dirty, but necessary for cleanliness. The banal is blurred with the mystical, the chore with the compulsion to create. Dirty and abject things may appear authentic and trustworthy in that they are by definition non-seductive and contain no outer shell of artifice, which infers some interior meaning--though the clutter is arranged, and the colors to be strewn are chosen.

ABOUT ALDRICH + WEISSBERGER: Eleanor Aldrich and Barbara Weissberger met as participants in The Drawing Center’s inaugural Open Sessions program in 2014 where their work was paired based on their mutual affinities. Since meeting they have collaborated on work that has appeared in group exhibitions (Material Outreach Program at the Drawing Center, NY), solo installations at GRIN Providence (Hive And Double) and the University of Pittsburgh (Dirty Work), and now CUSTODIA at Courtside, Knoxville. They continue to be curious about the tensions between the actual and illusion, perception and reality. All of their installations have referenced mundane objects, tools of cleaning (domestic and institutional) as well as tools of the studio.

C for Courtside, 513 Cooper Street, Knoxville, TN 37917. Information: cforcourtside@gmail.com, www.cforcourtside.com

Appalachian Arts Craft Center (AACC) in Norris is celebrating 50 years of service to crafts in Appalachia! Throughout the week of October 4 - 13, the AACC will be participating in Tennessee Craft Week! Regional artisans using the weaving and pottery studio, demonstrations by quilters and more!

In conjunction with Tennessee Craft Week, the AACC will be conducting their annual Fall Porch Sale October 4 - 18. The Porch Sale features work from juried and nonjuried members of the Craft Center and is an excellent time to shop for discounted artwork. The Porch Sale provides Center members the opportunity to replenish their artwork for the new year.

Appalachian Arts Craft Center: 2716 Andersonville Highway, Clinton, TN. Hours: M-Sa 10-6, Su 1-5. Information: 865-494-9854, www.appalachianarts.net

Robert A. Tino Gallery's Fall Festival is an autumn tradition for all ages. . . and you don't want to miss it! It runs Friday, October 4 through Sunday, October 6.

This year's festival will boast local crafters and artisans displaying a variety of handmade items that represent the area's Smoky Mountain heritage. With a range of contemporary and traditional vendors, there is something for everyone. During the three-day event, guests can view lye soap-making, blacksmithing, basket weaving, woodworking, handblown glass, pottery-making and various other craft vendors. There will also be live bluegrass music, delicious Southern food, wagon rides, and a slew of activities for children such as old-fashioned kids' games, and a pick-and-paint pumpkin patch.

The festival kicks off on Friday, October 4th from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and runs through Sunday, October 6th. Saturday and Sunday festival hours are from 10 a.m.– 5 p.m. Admission to the festival is $5.00 for adults, and children 12 and under are admitted for free. Event parking is free. A portion of the proceeds from ticket sales will benefit the Robert A. Tino Art Scholarship at Sevier County High School. The event is located at the Robert A. Tino Gallery on Sunset View Farm. The address is 812 Old Douglas Dam Rd, Sevierville, Tennessee 37876.

For additional information, please visit www.robertatinosmokymountainhomecoming.com or call 865-453-6315

9 AM - 4:45 PM daily

Twelve artisans of the Townsend Artisan Guild will be exhibiting and offering for sale their art at the Townsend Visitor Center. Throughout each day, artists will be demonstrating their techniques and explaining their processes for various art forms including pine needle baskets, painting, pottery, mixed media, fiber arts, and jewelry. A portion of the sales will be donated to the art program at the Townsend Elementary School.

The event will be held at 7906 East Lamar Alexander Parkway (Hwy 321) in Townsend.

Info: www.townsendartisanguild.org

Fri • Oct 04 • 8:00 PM
WITH CAROLINE SPENCE

Bijou Theatre, 803 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information/tickets: 865-522-0832, www.knoxbijou.com, www.ticketmaster.com

Music Feeds is BACK for its second year! Music Feeds will consist of six shows, starting in June and ending in October, at the Tennessee Amphitheater in World’s Fair Park.

The concert series benefiting Second Harvest Food Bank will include the following acts:
 Friday, Oct. 4: Scott Miller & the Commonwealth

AND we have an exciting addition this year: the Sweet P’s experience! Come enjoy dinner and drinks before each show (gates open at 5:30) by upgrading your Music Feeds tickets to include the Sweet P’s Experience! The Sweet P’s Experience includes BBQ, ribs, brisket, Creole favorites and season specialties, complimentary nonalcoholic beverages, a private cash bar and a private bathroom (that’s right– no walking to the bathrooms). When purchasing your Music Feeds tickets, be sure to add the Sweet P’s Experience for $30, BUT you have to act fast, only 150 Sweet P’s Experiences will be sold for each show!

Tickets are on sale NOW at www.knoxvilletickets.com/musicfeeds.

https://secondharvestetn.org/blog-post/music-feeds-is-back-for-its-second-year

ALL CONCERT SERIES- EARLY MORNING STRING DUSTERS
At GSMHC Amphitheater
COST: $10

Early Morning String Dusters Fall Concert Series Only $5 Leave your chair at home and use ours! Quantities are limited.

$10 per guest – GSMHC Members and Children 5 and Under are FREE

Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center, 3/4 mile east of traffic light at the Highway 321 and 73 intersection towards the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Townsend, TN. Hours: M-Sa 10-5. Information: 865-448-0044, www.gsmheritagecenter.org

MOVIES UNDER THE STARS: STEPHEN KING’S MISERY
October 4 @ 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Join Ijams Nature Center and Central Cinema as we kickoff your Halloween celebrations with a terrifying film by the master of horror himself, Stephen King. We are pleased to bring you Misery on Friday, October 4 as the finale to our 2019 Movies under the stars series.

Doors open at 6pm, movie begins at dark (approx. 8pm). Food trucks and beer garden will have tasty meals, snacks, beverages available for purchase. NO COOLERS AND NO OUTSIDE ALCOHOL PLEASE. Dogs allowed, but must be on leash at all times.

Tickets are $8 per person or $25 for a family four pack, available through Eventbrite or at the door.

Front lawn at the Visitor Center– don’t forget your blankets or lawn chairs for this event. In case of inclement weather, movie will be moved indoors.

Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave, Knoxville, TN 37920. Hours: Grounds and trails open during daylight hours. Call for Visitor Center hours. Information: 865-577-4717, www.ijams.org

Ensemble event; The UT Percussion Ensemble performs a concert of improvised and self-composed works for chamber ensemble, directed by Andrew Bliss
Natalie Haslam Music Center, Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall
8pm

UT School of Music: Unless otherwise noted, concerts are FREE and open to the public. The Alumni Memorial Building located at 1408 Middle Drive on the UT campus. (The James R. Cox Auditorium is located in the Alumni Memorial Building.) The Natalie Haslam Music Center is located at 1741 Volunteer Blvd on the UT campus. *For individual or small group performances, please check the web site or call the day of the event for updates or cancellations: 865-974-5678, www.music.utk.edu/events

Kara Lockmiller’s artwork will be on display the entire month of October at Lox Salon, 103 W. Jackson Avenue. To view Lockmiller’s portfolio visit KLockmillerArt.com. Lox Salon is a full service, eco friendly vegan salon in Knoxville’s Old City.

Friday, October 4, 2019 at 1 PM
Lox Salon
103 W Jackson Ave, Knoxville, Tennessee 37902
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